油腻 yóunì▶ grasiento

Stroke order

油腻 is written in 21 strokes across 2 characters.

• 油 — 8 strokes
• 腻 — 13 strokes

Senses

1. greasy food; oily food
2. (of food) greasy; oily; fatty
3. (neologism, attested by 2017) (of a middle-aged man) obnoxious; pretentious; vulgar

Related words

• 柴油gasóleo
• 油漆pintar
• 石油petróleo
• 汽油gasolina
• 油炸Frito
• 酱油salsa de soja

油腻 is pronounced yóunì and means “grasiento”. It is part of the HSK 6 word list, a level of China’s Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi proficiency exam. Knowing what 油腻 means when you see it is a weaker kind of knowing than being able to summon it; only the second survives a real conversation. LexiTrail spaces your reviews so each one lands when it will do the most work.